It seems like when the big reddit migration happened, a lot of new users claimed magazine names on kbin instances that were popular on reddit in order to have ownership of them, but they seemingly have no interest in posting content to them. This has unfortunately caused lot of otherwise useful magazines to remain dormant, vacant, and unused.
Would it make sense to have these ghost magazines expire or have a system for changing ownership of them if no one uses them? It’s a shame if the good names are taken and immediately abandoned, and it’s not a great user experience to look for communities only to find so many empty and abandoned magazines.
I’m curious what opinions are regarding this matter. Thanks.
I’m also concerned with magazines that have absentee owner/moderators.
Yep - great example, @maxrebo is squatting on @Starwars, @LEGO, and @Marvel - but they have had no activity for over a month now, and it’s quite possible they’ve abandoned their account.
This really bothers me too. There are a couple of quite active magazines I’m subscribed to that have an inactive mod, no active moderation and completely empty mod logs.
@DarkGamer is talking about things that sit empty but things that fill up with effectively no mod presence are potentially going to become another kind of problem.